Hi, Short answer is "hal is accepted now for lenny d-i"
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:05:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > >> maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal. > >> Create any user. after the installer finish.. you can login and create > >> user 'Hal' with > >> adduser.. ;) > > > > hal package have changed ... > > hal (0.5.7.1-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > > [ Sjoerd Simons ] > > * New upstream release > > * debian/hal.postinst,debian/hal.postrm,debian/rules: Rename the hal > > daemon > > user to haldaemon (was hal) > > If debian-installer is still reserving the name "hal" for the hal > package, then this should be fixed within debian-installer. > > Please file a bug against the "debian-installer" package. Is this right package? user-setup is the one I think. Let's look in... OP was using etch installer. Available hal versions Oldstable 0.4.7-3sarge1 Stable 0.5.8.1-9etch1 Testing 0.5.11-3 Unstable 0.5.11-5 As I understand, 0.5.7.1-1 = Tue, 15 Aug 2006 0.5.8.1-9 = Wed, 14 Mar 2007 Hmmm... this is odd. There is no udeb either from hal package. Let's see ... In pool directory of lenny installer iso, user-setup-udeb_1.20_all.udeb has /usr/lib/user-setup/reserved-usernames This one has haldaemon but changelog in source user-setup tells me user-setup (1.17) unstable; urgency=low ... [ Colin Watson ] * Fix comment attached to passwd/user-default-groups. * hal was renamed to haldaemon in hal 0.5.7.1-1; Hal is also a reasonablyt common human name. Remove it from reserved-usernames. ... -- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:56:46 +0100 So this is fixed bug. I doubts they will update etch installer just for this fix. If you know better, please pursue. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]